Podcast appearances and mentions of london review bookshop

At the time of his death in 2017, the architectural critic and historian Gavin Stamp (Private Eye's ‘Piloti') had nearly completed his monumental survey of British architecture between the world wars. His wife, the writer and historian Rosemary Hill, has edited the text for publication. Interwar: British Architecture 1919-1939 (Profile) is a refreshing reassessment of the period which looks beyond modernism to give a broader picture of an age of turbulence and contradiction.Hill was joined in conversation with Rowan Moore, whose most recent book is Property: The Myth that Built the World (Faber).Get Interwar: https://lrb.me/interwarpodFind more events at the London Review Bookshop: https://lrb.me/eventspod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lara Pawson discusses her new book Spent Light with Jennifer Hodgson.Find out more about London Review Bookshop events: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Paul Muldoon reads from and talks about his collection Howdie-Skelp.Find out more about London Review Bookshop events: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/events Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When is giving up not failure, but a way of succeeding at something else? In his new book, which began as a piece for the LRB, the psychoanalyst and critic Adam Phillips explores the ways in which knowing our limitations can be an act of heroism. This episode was recorded at the London Review Bookshop, where Phillips was joined by the biographer and critic Hermione Lee in a conversation about giving up and On Giving Up, his approach to writing and the purpose of psychoanalysis.Find Phillips's 2022 piece On Giving Up and further reading on the episode page: lrb.me/ongivingupFind future events at the Bookshop: lrb.me/eventspod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A holistic and revealing account of the inspirations, passions and practices of one of the country's foremost contemporary artists, Art is Magic finds Jeremy Deller reflecting on the entirety of his career, his life and his art. Deller was joined in conversation with writer Michael Bracewell, author of Unfinished Business.Find more events at the London Review Bookshop: lrb.me/eventspodBuy a copy of Art is Magic: lrb.me/dellerpod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Song & Dance Man is an established classic, available again for Dylan fans and scholars alike on the 50th Anniversary of the original edition. The work in these three volumes has been called “Monumental, endlessly illuminating.” (Rolling Stone) “Probably the greatest book about the work of a single popular musician ever to have been published.” (London Review Bookshop) and "The definitive critical work." (Evening Standard). Author Michael Gray is recognized as a world authority on the work and career of Bob Dylan; he was the first to consider Dylan's writing as worthy of treatment as serious art. As author K G Miles said: “People forget that the road to the Nobel Prize was very long, took many years, and began with that book; it began with Michael Gray.” Song & Dance Man is unique in its scope, integrating biographical, literary and musical contexts into a powerful scrutiny of Dylan as songwriter and performer. This first volume contains the foundational and timeless analysis that made this book a classic - looking at how Dylan's writing and performance set in the folk and literary traditions and how it compared to other efforts to write rock and pop songs. It deeply inspects and discusses Dylan's use of language, both his early bursts of complexity and his later move towards simplicity. Included is a special review of the song 'Lay Down Your Weary Tune' which Gray finds particularly effective and impressive, and an over 100-page chapter detailed Dylan's fascination with and use of the pre-war blues. Michael Gray is a critic, writer, public speaker & broadcaster recognised as a world authority on the work of Bob Dylan, and as an expert on rock'n'roll history. He also has a special interest in pre-war blues, and in travel. Song & Dance Man on Twitter. Bradley Morgan is a media arts professional in Chicago and author of U2's The Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in Mythic America. He manages partnerships on behalf of CHIRP Radio 107.1 FM, serves as a co-chair of the associate board at the Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and volunteers in the music archive at the Old Town School of Folk Music. Bradley Morgan on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

Song & Dance Man is an established classic, available again for Dylan fans and scholars alike on the 50th Anniversary of the original edition. The work in these three volumes has been called “Monumental, endlessly illuminating.” (Rolling Stone) “Probably the greatest book about the work of a single popular musician ever to have been published.” (London Review Bookshop) and "The definitive critical work." (Evening Standard). Author Michael Gray is recognized as a world authority on the work and career of Bob Dylan; he was the first to consider Dylan's writing as worthy of treatment as serious art. As author K G Miles said: “People forget that the road to the Nobel Prize was very long, took many years, and began with that book; it began with Michael Gray.” Song & Dance Man is unique in its scope, integrating biographical, literary and musical contexts into a powerful scrutiny of Dylan as songwriter and performer. This first volume contains the foundational and timeless analysis that made this book a classic - looking at how Dylan's writing and performance set in the folk and literary traditions and how it compared to other efforts to write rock and pop songs. It deeply inspects and discusses Dylan's use of language, both his early bursts of complexity and his later move towards simplicity. Included is a special review of the song 'Lay Down Your Weary Tune' which Gray finds particularly effective and impressive, and an over 100-page chapter detailed Dylan's fascination with and use of the pre-war blues. Michael Gray is a critic, writer, public speaker & broadcaster recognised as a world authority on the work of Bob Dylan, and as an expert on rock'n'roll history. He also has a special interest in pre-war blues, and in travel. Song & Dance Man on Twitter. Bradley Morgan is a media arts professional in Chicago and author of U2's The Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in Mythic America. He manages partnerships on behalf of CHIRP Radio 107.1 FM, serves as a co-chair of the associate board at the Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and volunteers in the music archive at the Old Town School of Folk Music. Bradley Morgan on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/music

Song & Dance Man is an established classic, available again for Dylan fans and scholars alike on the 50th Anniversary of the original edition. The work in these three volumes has been called “Monumental, endlessly illuminating.” (Rolling Stone) “Probably the greatest book about the work of a single popular musician ever to have been published.” (London Review Bookshop) and "The definitive critical work." (Evening Standard). Author Michael Gray is recognized as a world authority on the work and career of Bob Dylan; he was the first to consider Dylan's writing as worthy of treatment as serious art. As author K G Miles said: “People forget that the road to the Nobel Prize was very long, took many years, and began with that book; it began with Michael Gray.” Song & Dance Man is unique in its scope, integrating biographical, literary and musical contexts into a powerful scrutiny of Dylan as songwriter and performer. This first volume contains the foundational and timeless analysis that made this book a classic - looking at how Dylan's writing and performance set in the folk and literary traditions and how it compared to other efforts to write rock and pop songs. It deeply inspects and discusses Dylan's use of language, both his early bursts of complexity and his later move towards simplicity. Included is a special review of the song 'Lay Down Your Weary Tune' which Gray finds particularly effective and impressive, and an over 100-page chapter detailed Dylan's fascination with and use of the pre-war blues. Michael Gray is a critic, writer, public speaker & broadcaster recognised as a world authority on the work of Bob Dylan, and as an expert on rock'n'roll history. He also has a special interest in pre-war blues, and in travel. Song & Dance Man on Twitter. Bradley Morgan is a media arts professional in Chicago and author of U2's The Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in Mythic America. He manages partnerships on behalf of CHIRP Radio 107.1 FM, serves as a co-chair of the associate board at the Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and volunteers in the music archive at the Old Town School of Folk Music. Bradley Morgan on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Song & Dance Man is an established classic, available again for Dylan fans and scholars alike on the 50th Anniversary of the original edition. The work in these three volumes has been called “Monumental, endlessly illuminating.” (Rolling Stone) “Probably the greatest book about the work of a single popular musician ever to have been published.” (London Review Bookshop) and "The definitive critical work." (Evening Standard). Author Michael Gray is recognized as a world authority on the work and career of Bob Dylan; he was the first to consider Dylan's writing as worthy of treatment as serious art. As author K G Miles said: “People forget that the road to the Nobel Prize was very long, took many years, and began with that book; it began with Michael Gray.” Song & Dance Man is unique in its scope, integrating biographical, literary and musical contexts into a powerful scrutiny of Dylan as songwriter and performer. This first volume contains the foundational and timeless analysis that made this book a classic - looking at how Dylan's writing and performance set in the folk and literary traditions and how it compared to other efforts to write rock and pop songs. It deeply inspects and discusses Dylan's use of language, both his early bursts of complexity and his later move towards simplicity. Included is a special review of the song 'Lay Down Your Weary Tune' which Gray finds particularly effective and impressive, and an over 100-page chapter detailed Dylan's fascination with and use of the pre-war blues. Michael Gray is a critic, writer, public speaker & broadcaster recognised as a world authority on the work of Bob Dylan, and as an expert on rock'n'roll history. He also has a special interest in pre-war blues, and in travel. Song & Dance Man on Twitter. Bradley Morgan is a media arts professional in Chicago and author of U2's The Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in Mythic America. He manages partnerships on behalf of CHIRP Radio 107.1 FM, serves as a co-chair of the associate board at the Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and volunteers in the music archive at the Old Town School of Folk Music. Bradley Morgan on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/performing-arts

Song & Dance Man is an established classic, available again for Dylan fans and scholars alike on the 50th Anniversary of the original edition. The work in these three volumes has been called “Monumental, endlessly illuminating.” (Rolling Stone) “Probably the greatest book about the work of a single popular musician ever to have been published.” (London Review Bookshop) and "The definitive critical work." (Evening Standard). Author Michael Gray is recognized as a world authority on the work and career of Bob Dylan; he was the first to consider Dylan's writing as worthy of treatment as serious art. As author K G Miles said: “People forget that the road to the Nobel Prize was very long, took many years, and began with that book; it began with Michael Gray.” Song & Dance Man is unique in its scope, integrating biographical, literary and musical contexts into a powerful scrutiny of Dylan as songwriter and performer. This first volume contains the foundational and timeless analysis that made this book a classic - looking at how Dylan's writing and performance set in the folk and literary traditions and how it compared to other efforts to write rock and pop songs. It deeply inspects and discusses Dylan's use of language, both his early bursts of complexity and his later move towards simplicity. Included is a special review of the song 'Lay Down Your Weary Tune' which Gray finds particularly effective and impressive, and an over 100-page chapter detailed Dylan's fascination with and use of the pre-war blues. Michael Gray is a critic, writer, public speaker & broadcaster recognised as a world authority on the work of Bob Dylan, and as an expert on rock'n'roll history. He also has a special interest in pre-war blues, and in travel. Song & Dance Man on Twitter. Bradley Morgan is a media arts professional in Chicago and author of U2's The Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in Mythic America. He manages partnerships on behalf of CHIRP Radio 107.1 FM, serves as a co-chair of the associate board at the Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and volunteers in the music archive at the Old Town School of Folk Music. Bradley Morgan on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

Song & Dance Man is an established classic, available again for Dylan fans and scholars alike on the 50th Anniversary of the original edition. The work in these three volumes has been called “Monumental, endlessly illuminating.” (Rolling Stone) “Probably the greatest book about the work of a single popular musician ever to have been published.” (London Review Bookshop) and "The definitive critical work." (Evening Standard). Author Michael Gray is recognized as a world authority on the work and career of Bob Dylan; he was the first to consider Dylan's writing as worthy of treatment as serious art. As author K G Miles said: “People forget that the road to the Nobel Prize was very long, took many years, and began with that book; it began with Michael Gray.” Song & Dance Man is unique in its scope, integrating biographical, literary and musical contexts into a powerful scrutiny of Dylan as songwriter and performer. This first volume contains the foundational and timeless analysis that made this book a classic - looking at how Dylan's writing and performance set in the folk and literary traditions and how it compared to other efforts to write rock and pop songs. It deeply inspects and discusses Dylan's use of language, both his early bursts of complexity and his later move towards simplicity. Included is a special review of the song 'Lay Down Your Weary Tune' which Gray finds particularly effective and impressive, and an over 100-page chapter detailed Dylan's fascination with and use of the pre-war blues. Michael Gray is a critic, writer, public speaker & broadcaster recognised as a world authority on the work of Bob Dylan, and as an expert on rock'n'roll history. He also has a special interest in pre-war blues, and in travel. Song & Dance Man on Twitter. Bradley Morgan is a media arts professional in Chicago and author of U2's The Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in Mythic America. He manages partnerships on behalf of CHIRP Radio 107.1 FM, serves as a co-chair of the associate board at the Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and volunteers in the music archive at the Old Town School of Folk Music. Bradley Morgan on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/popular-culture

Nick Cave hates giving interviews. It's the first thing he mentions in his new book, “Faith, Hope & Carnage”, which comprises a series of conversations between Cave and the writer Seán O'Hagan.  So it's with some trepidation that Krishnan Guru-Murthy sits down with the post punk legend, to discuss the book, along with Cave's attending the coronation, the tragic death of his son, his attitudes towards free speech and political correctness, and his journey to find - and define - happiness. With thanks to  the London Review Bookshop, where this interview was filmed.  Produced by Alice Wagstaffe.  

This week, a guest episode from the London Review Bookshop Podcast, featuring Elif Batuman talking to Merve Emre about her latest book, Either/Or. The London Review Bookshop podcast comes out every week and has hundreds of events in its archive. Find it wherever you get your podcast.Some events from the London Review Bookshop are broadcast online as well as in person, so you can watch live from anywhere in the world. On Wednesday this week, you can watch food writers Rebecca May Johnson and Jonathan Nunn.Buy tickets here: https://lrb.me/eventspod Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the final episode in our series looking at the way history was transformed in the Romantic period, Neil MacGregor joins Rosemary Hill to discuss the circulation of artefacts throughout Europe in the years after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, and the growth of public collections. They consider how the questions that museums grapple with today – concerning ownership, restitution and the role ordinary people should play in the stories they tell – were inherent in their creation in the 18th and 19th centuries.Buy Rosemary Hill's book, Time's Witness, from the London Review Bookshop here: https://lrb.me/hillSubscribe to the LRB and get 79% off the cover price plus a free tote bag: https://lrb.me/history See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Who put the arrow in Harold's eye? Why did Dick Whittington have a cat? Where did the pointed arch come from? These are all questions that the curious and energetic antiquarians of the late 18th and early 19th centuries asked, and often managed to answer.In the third episode of her series looking at the way history was transformed in the Romantic period, Rosemary Hill talks to Roey Sweet about the new breed of multi-disciplinary investigators, who, in the years after the French Revolution, studied everything from woollen threads to tombstones in their efforts to imagine the past.Buy Rosemary Hill's book, Time's Witness, from the London Review Bookshop here: https://lrb.me/hillSubscribe to the LRB and get 79% off the cover price plus a free tote bag: https://lrb.me/history See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the 1740s the Scots were invading England and the wearing of tartan was banned. By the 1850s, Queen Victoria had built her Gothic fantasy in Aberdeenshire and tartan was everywhere. What happened in between?In the second episode of her series on Romantic history, Rosemary Hill talks to Colin Kidd about the myths and traditions of Scottish history created in the 19th century, and the central role of Walter Scott in forging his country's identity.Buy Rosemary Hill's book, Time's Witness, from the London Review Bookshop here: https://lrb.me/hillSubscribe to the LRB and get 79% off the cover price plus a free tote bag: https://lrb.me/history See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the first episode of a new four-part series looking at the way history was transformed in the Romantic period, Rosemary Hill is joined by Tom Stammers to consider how an argument over the ‘improvement' of Salisbury Cathedral in 1789 launched a new attitude to the past and its artefacts. Those sentiments were echoed in revolutionary France, where antiquarians risked the guillotine to preserve the monuments of the Ancien Régime.Buy Rosemary Hill's book, Time's Witness, from the London Review Bookshop here: https://lrb.me/hillSubscribe to the LRB and get 79% off the cover price plus a free tote bag: https://lrb.me/history See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this show, we celebrate the synchronicity that this episode was recorded on the International Day of Peace. Fittingly, we were honored to speak with two people who are each holding a beautiful vision of how peace can grow out of this global moment of polarity and division. In the first half hour we talk with Michael Lindfield, board member of Meditation Mount in Ojai, CA. In the second half of the show, we hear from peace advocate and poet Mandy Kahn, who reads from one of her recent works.About our guests: Michael Lindfield has studied and applied the Ageless Wisdom teachings and been involved in Creative Meditation since the late 1960s through an affiliation with Sundial House in England (a sister group of Meditation Mount). He is a highly regarded consultant and coach with over 45 years of international experience in helping individuals and organizations unleash the creativity of the human spirit to meet the urgent needs of our times and the compelling call of a more just and joyful future. Michael is author of ‘The Dance of Change: an Eco-Spiritual Approach to Transformation' (Penguin Books 1986) and numerous articles featured in psychology, education and business journals. He is also co-founder of The Science of Group Work Initiative and a member of the Community of Living Ethics in Umbria, Italy.Mandy Kahn is a poet and peace advocate based in Los Angeles. She is the author of two poetry collections, with a third forthcoming in 2022. Her work is included in The Best American Poetry anthology series and she is the subject of the feature-length documentary Peace Piece: The Immersive Poems of Mandy Kahn. She presented a program of peace-building interactive poems at the Getty Museum in 2019. She is the writer-in-residence at Manly P. Hall's Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles, where she teaches a free weekly online class on the nature of peace called Peace Class and presents a series of peace-building concerts called I LIKE PEACE. She has given readings at Cambridge University, the London Review Bookshop and Shoreditch House in the UK, at Motto in Berlin, at Colette in Paris, at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, and at the New School in New York, and has been interviewed by BBC Radio, Pacifica Radio, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Flaunt Magazine and Issue Magazine. She is the 2018 recipient of the Shakespeare Prize in Poetry.

Alan Bennett reads selections from his diary from March 2020 to March 2021.Read more Alan Bennett in the LRB here: lrb.me/alanbennettpodAlan Bennett’s pandemic diary will be published as a signed, numbered London Review Bookshop limited edition at the end of June. Pre-order a copy at lrb.me/housearrestSubscribe to the LRB from just £1 per issue: https://mylrb.co.uk/podcast20b See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Diane Williams reads nine of her (very) short stories published in the LRB, the most recent, ‘Tassel Rue’, from our Christmas issue.Find these stories and more, as well as a conversation between Williams and Lara Pawson from the London Review Bookshop, on our website: https://lrb.me/dianewilliamspodSubscribe to the LRB from just £1 per issue: https://mylrb.co.uk/podcast20b See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Igbo and Tamil writer and artist Akwaeke Emezi's mesmerising first novel Freshwater was published to universal acclaim in 2018, and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Their second book was Pet, a novel for young adults that raised difficult and pertinent questions about cultures of denial, and was described as ‘beautiful and genre-expanding’ in the New York Times. To mark the publication of their second novel for adults The Death of Vivek Oji, a heart-wrenching tale of one family’s discords and misunderstandings, the London Review Bookshop hosted a live online conversation between Akwaeke Emezi and their editor at Faber, Louisa Joyner.The interview between Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Dionne Brand referred to in their conversation can be found here: https://reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2018/06/temporary-spaces-of-joy-and-freedom/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sally Rooneys famoses zweites Buch „Normale Menschen“ wird vom Guardian als „Klassiker der Zukunft“ gehandelt – und ich bin ziemlich sicher, er hat Recht. Marianne und Connell, die Hauptfiguren, sind für mich so eine Art Julia und Romeo unserer Zeit und stehen den beiden in ihrem Talent für Missverständnisse in nichts nach. Es geht um Liebe, Sex, Identität und darum, wie die soziale Klasse die Liebe und das Leben prägt. Unaufgeregt im Stil ist Rooney ein aufregendes Buch gelungen. Und weil die irische Schriftstellerin selbst eine Entdeckung wert ist, habe ich einiges über sie recherchiert und teile unten die Links mit euch. Vorab frechweg einen Link in eigener Sache: "Feiste Bücher" ist für den Buchblog Award 2020 nominiert, und ich würde mich sehr, sehr freuen, wenn ihr mir bis zum 8. September eure Stimme gebt: www.buchblog-award.de „Normale Menschen“ von Sally Rooney ist bei Luchterhand erschienen. Zoe Beck hat die 320 Seiten aus dem irischen Englisch übersetzt, das Hardcover kostet 20 €. Gerade läuft auch eine 12-teilige Serie bei Starplayzs. Und obwohl Daisy Edgar-Jones und Paul Mescal ganz bezaubernd sind, rate ich euch hier, wie eigentlich immer: Lest lieber zuerst das Buch! Und jetzt die Links zur Folge: "Normale Menschen" beruht auf der Kurzgeschichte „At the Clinic“, die die heute 29-Jährige bereits 2016 im Alter von 25 Jahren in der Londoner Literaturzeitschrift „The White Review“ veröffentlicht hat: https://www.thewhitereview.org/fiction/at-the-clinic/ Lauren Collins hat Rooney für den "New Yorker" getroffen und ein exzellentes Porträt geschrieben:https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/07/sally-rooney-gets-in-your-head Im Gespräch mit dem dänischen Channel.Louisina.dk spricht Rooney darüber, wie sich Bücher als Ware mit ihrer marxistischen Weltsicht vertragen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1S5bOdJq3U&t=1s Ein tolles ausführliches Gespräch mit ihr hat der London Review Bookshop aufgezeichnet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jH_0rg46Es&t=3222s Rooney hat 2018 für "Normale Menschen" den Costa Novel Award gewonnen – sympathische anderthalb Minuten mit ihr: https://youtu.be/BPmOFdCPW2I Und zum Abschluss ein Essay von ihr, der mit in die Welt der Debatten-Wettkämpfe nimmt: https://thedublinreview.com/article/even-if-you-beat-me/ Schreibt mir gern auf Insta, was ihr denkt! Folge direkt herunterladen

We hosted the shortlisted authors for the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2019 in an evening of readings at the London Review Bookshop. Rewarding the most exciting and interesting literature published by small presses in the UK and Ireland, the Republic of Consciousness Prize has previously been awarded to John Keene (Counternarratives, Fitzcarraldo Editions) and Eley Williams (Attrib. and other stories, Influx Press). This year’s shortlist of six is: Daša Drndić for Doppelgänger, (Istros), Will Eaves for Murmur (CB Editions), Wendy Erskine for Sweet Home (Stinging Fly), Anthony Joseph for Kitch (Peepal Tree), Chris McCabe for Dedalus (Henningham Family Press) and Alex Pheby for Lucia (Galley Beggar). Sadly, Daša Drndić died last year, but was represented at the readings by her publisher and translator. See the full shortlist here. The readings were introduced by the prize’s founder, Neil Griffiths. The Republic of Consciousness Prize was set up in 2017, and is given yearly to a book published by a small press in the UK & Ireland. It is the only prize that awards money to both the publisher and the author of the winning title. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To celebrate the publication of the London Review Bookshop's beautiful limited edition of Peter Carey’s new novel 'A Long Way From Home', LRB publisher Nicholas Spice spoke to Carey about his deep family connections with cars, maps and stories, the question of race in Australia, and how all these things come together in the new work. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To mark John Berger’s 90th birthday, the London Review Bookshop and Verso Books organised a discussion of his work with Mike Dibb, Yasmin Gunaratnam and Tom Overton, hosted by Gareth Evans.Read John Berger in the LRB: https://lrb.me/bergerpodSign up to the LRB newsletter: https://lrb.me/acast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

John Berger has revolutionised our understanding of art, language, media, society, politics and everyday experience itself since his landmark book and TV series Ways of Seeing over forty years ago. As the internationally influential critic, novelist, film-maker, dramatist and, above all, storyteller enters his ninetieth year, the latest Verso podcast in collaboration with the London Review Bookshop celebrates his life and work. Gareth Evans is joined by Tom Overton, editor of Landscapes: John Berger on Art, Yasmin Gunaratnam, editor of A Jar of Wild Flowers, and Mike Dibb, film-maker and director of Ways of Seeing, to explore Berger's art and politics, the evolution of his own way of seeing, and its enduring relevance. Several books are being published this autumn in tribute to Berger, who is Author of the Month at the London Review Bookshop: - Landscapes: John Berger on Art edited by Tom Overton (Verso), a companion volume to Portraits: John Berger on Artists - A Jar of Wild Flowers edited by Yasmin Gunaratnam with Amarjit Chandan (Zed) collects essays by writers including Ali Smith, Sally Potter, Ram Rahman, Hsiao-Hung Pai and others - Confabulations (Penguin), through Berger's drawings, notes, memories and reflections explores language - John Berger: Collected Poems (Smokestack)collects Berger's poetry in English for the first time - The Long White Thread of Words: Poems for John Berger (Smokestack), edited by Amarjit Chandan, Yasmin Gunaratnam and Gareth Evans - Lapwing & Fox (Collectif), a series of conversations in correspondence sent between Berger and his friend, artist and film-maker John Christie.

Ben Lerner and Andrea Brady in conversation at the London Review Bookshop. Lerner is a novelist, poet and critic, whose most recent collection is No Art, and whose controversial critical essay The Hatred of Poetry began as a piece in the LRB. Brady is a professor, poet and editor at Barque Press, whose most recent book is Mutability: Scripts for Infancy, published by University of Chicago Press. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

From the tyranny of exercise to the crisis of policing, via the sexualization of childhood (and everything else), Mark Greif’s Against Everything is an essential guide to the vicissitudes of everyday life under twenty-first-century capitalism and a vital scrutiny of the contradictions arising between our desires and the excuses we make. In a wide-ranging conversation for the latest Verso podcast in collaboration with the London Review Bookshop, Mark Greif and Brian Dillon discuss modes of critique and cultural forms, and the role of the intellectual in stripping away the veil of everyday life. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

From the tyranny of exercise to the crisis of policing, via the sexualization of childhood (and everything else), Mark Greif’s Against Everything is an essential guide to the vicissitudes of everyday life under twenty-first-century capitalism and a vital scrutiny of the contradictions arising between our desires and the excuses we make. In a wide-ranging conversation for the latest Verso podcast in collaboration with the London Review Bookshop, Mark Greif and Brian Dillon discuss modes of critique and cultural forms, and the role of the intellectual in stripping away the veil of everyday life. Against Everything: On Dishonest Times by Mark Greif is available now: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2256-against-everything Mark Greif is a founder and editor of n+1 magazine. Brian Dillon is a writer and critic. He is UK editor of Cabinet magazine, and teaches critical writing at the Royal College of Art.

The Storyteller: Tales out of Loneliness gathers for the first time the fiction of Walter Benjamin, edited and translated by Sam Dolbear, Esther Leslie and Sebastian Truskolaski. His stories revel in the erotic tensions of city life, cross the threshold of dreamworlds, celebrate the ludic, and delve into fortune-telling. Taken together, the novellas, fables, histories, aphorisms, parables and riddles in this collection illuminate the themes that defined Benjamin’s work. In the latest Verso podcast in collaboration with the London Review Bookshop, Esther Leslie, Marina Warner and Michael Rosen join Gareth Evans to discuss his experimentation with form and the themes that run throughout Benjamin’s creative and critical writing, his concepts of storytelling, pedagogy, and the communicability of experience. To read the editors' introduction to The Storyteller & to WIN FREE BOOKS, visit the Verso blog: http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/2675-walter-benjamin-the-storyteller-the-verso-podcast-in-collaboration-with-the-london-review-bookshop Reading: Flossie Draper

In the latest Verso podcast in collaboration with the London Review Bookshop, Esther Leslie, Marina Warner and Michael Rosen join Gareth Evans to discuss Walter Benjamin's experimentation with form and media, his concept of storytelling and the communicability of experience, and the themes that run throughout Benjamin’s creative and critical writing. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Kate Evans joins writer and editor Sophie Mayer to examine the radical origins of International Women's Day, Rosa Luxemburg's revolutionary life and work in the international socialist movement, and her enduring legacy. This March, the London Review Bookshop is celebrating women graphic novelists in honour of Women's History Month. As part of their spotlight on Kate Evans, the creator of the cult hit Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg, we present the inaugural Verso podcast in collaboration with the London Review Bookshop and a giveaway competition where you can win a limited edition Rosa Luxemburg tote bags containing a copy of Red Rosa, The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg and The Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg. To win a goody bag, you must listen to the podcast to answer the questions here: http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/2534-the-verso-podcast-red-rosa-in-collaboration-with-the-london-review-bookshop

The Takács Quartet first violinist talks to James Jolly, for an EFG Gramophone Conversation held at the London Review Bookshop

Claire-Louise Bennett and Joanna Walsh met at the London Review Bookshop to read from and discuss their new books, Pond (Fitzcarraldo Editions) and Hotel (Bloomsbury). The discussion was chaired by Katherine Angel, author of Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell (Penguin). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Kyle Cronin presents #LondonReads - a show about local London bookstores, and capturing what makes them unique, on #ZoneOneRadio. Today’s show features two shops, Quinto Books and the London Review Bookshop. In the first interview, Sam Page from Quinto Books talks about how the shop stays fresh, and how they attract customers from all over. In the second interview, David Lee comes on and explains what makes the London Review bookshop unique, what he hopes the shop can become, and what makes a book a great invention. Music this week is inspired by Kyle’s time in London, and includes Panda Bear, Elliott Smith, and Titus Andronicus. -- www.twitter.com/KyleCronin74 www.twitter.com/z1radio www.ZoneOneRadio.com www.facebook.com/ZoneOneRadio Panda Bear - Comfy in Nautica Twenty One Pilots - Trees Titus Andronicus - In a Big City Elliott Smith - Can’t Make a Sound Arctic Monkeys - Despair in the Departure Lounge

Kingsgate Community Centre has a fundraising fair to celebrate 30 years of work, Love Music Hate Racism Festival is on at Rich Mix till 1am tomorrow; ‘Regents Canal Folk Opera is on tonight at Canal Cafe Theatre and at other venues over the next few weeks. It marks 200 years since the canal was built; There is a demonstration at the Hungarian Embassy tomorrow. Email Noklazadasa.london@gmail.com for more information. Cecil Sharp House hosts a family barn dance; The work of Margaret Tait is presented and discussed by Ali Smith and Sarah Neely at London Review Bookshop. Read by: Betiel Baraki, DJ Rudeboy P. Tash, Marian Larragy Kingsgate Community Centre :: Love Music Hate Racism Festival :: Regent's Canal Folk Opera :: Music Glue/Barn Dance :: London Review Shop :: Margaret Tait Vita & Virginia A Love Relationship in Two Acts :: Back to Camden Community Radio :: Follow Camden Community Radio on Twitter :: File Download (7:11 min / 7 MB)

As part of Faber & Faber's 80th anniversary celebrations, the London Review Bookshop welcomed two Faber authors to read from and discuss their first works: Sarah Hall's debut novel Haweswater and Clare Wigfall's collection The Loudest Sound and Nothing. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jenny Diski was at the London Review Bookshop to be cheered up, apologise, and read from her latest book, Apology for the Woman Writing, a story drawn from the marginal notes that exist about Marie de Gournay, Montaigne's editor and onetime 'stalker'. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On the day following press night at the National Theatre, Alan Bennett spoke at the London Review Bookshop about The History Boys. The play asks questions about history and how it should be taught, and about education and its purpose. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In one of the first events held at the London Review Bookshop, Mary Beard and Robert Irwin squared up to each other to debate the relative greatness of two magnificent structures, the Alhambra and the Parthenon. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.